Jimmy Savile: 28 Years Later star explains his character’s disturbing real-life inspiration

The final scene of 28 Years Later prompted two very different reactions. Most American and international audiences were delighted and intrigued to meet Jack O’Connell’s Sir Jimmy Crystal and his gang of merry zombie killers, dressed in colorful jumpsuits and platinum blonde wigs. But for audiences in the U.K. or anyone familiar with the story of real-life monster Jimmy Savile, O’Connell’s character evoked a very different type of horror.